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From the above calculation we may likewife fee, 
how fmall the annual increafe of fencible men may 
be in Britain, or perhaps in any other country in 
Europe. For as that increafe in both our Iflands 
does not appear to be more than 8 2 yo, but rather 
lefs, or about 7900, and the number of our whole 
people in them is not found to exceed 8,000,000, 
the annual increafe in each million muft be lefs than 
1000, or about 987 ; that is, lefs than one in a thou- 
sand ; though we have allowed the increafe in Scot- 
land and Ireland to be double in proportion to what 
it is in England. And from this we may form a 
good rule, by which we may judge of the increafe, 
or decreafe of other nations. For though they may 
be fuppofed to increafe perhaps fader than we do, by 
more frequent marriages, the annual increafe of their 
fencible men will not generally much exceed 1000, 
for every million of people. And therefore, accord- 
ing as their lodes by war, or other devaftations are 
fewer, or exceed 1000 fencible men annually, for 
every million of their people, they are either in an 
increasing or decreafing date; and for every 1000 
men that are lod, there is the increafe of a million 
for one year dedroyed ; which it were to be wish- 
ed, that Princes would attend to, in their ambitious 
fchemes, by which they make fuch havock of man- 
kind. 
And hence by the way we may obferve, that 
France cannot be in an increasing date, unlefs their 
late encouragement for marriage has had fome consi- 
derable eSfedt ; becauSe if the number of her people, 
as Sir William Petty and others have reckoned, does 
not exceed 14,000,000, the annual increafe of her 
fencible 
